Nightsun

For over twenty years, Nightsun has been publishing contemporary poetry and prose, focusing on both established writers and new talent. After a two year hiatus, a new Nightsun rises above the western Maryland mountains. Each issue will feature a guest editor, and the work inside will highlight the aesthetic and vision of the chosen editor. To highlight this new focus, the journal will look different too: a larger folio edition will allow these editors' choices to be presented in an attractive, distinctive way.

For the current issue of the Nightsun, Dinty Moore chose works not based on a political or explicit aesthetic agenda but "just a sincere desire to provide a pleasing tempest of words, as nourishing and refreshing as real rain," including work by: Eula Biss, Todd Davis, Kim Dana Kupperman, Chad Prevost, Catherine Taylor and Angus Woodward among others and photography by Dylan Vitone.

Click on the current issue link to see the table of contents and excerpts from the issue.

Congratulations to Lawrence Raab, whose poem "The Great Poem" was chosen to be included in The Best American Poetry 2006, edited by Billy Collins. The poem originally appeared in Nightsun issue 23, guest edited by Stephen Dunn.

High school teachers: look for information about using Nightsun in the literature class with special web-based lesson plans using Nightsun to teach elements of poetry and fiction as well as creative writing. To get your school involved, please contact the offices of Nightsun.